A Little Journey 

to the /^JT^ 

Home of Elder Pardon Tillinghast 



By 

John Avery Tillinghast 

and 

Frederick Wheaton Tillinghast 



Read at the third reunion ot the descendants ot 

Deacon Pardon and Mary (Sweet) Tillinghast 

in Providence, Rhode Island, 

September 4, 1908 



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A Little Journey to the Home of 
Elder Pardon Tillinpfhast. 



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N the year 1625, His Majesty- 
Charles the First, by the Grace of 
our Lord, King of England, Scot- 
land and Ireland, Defender of the 
Faith, etc., ascended his ill-starred 
throne. He found things in a suf- 
ficiently bad way, thanks in considerable part to 
his own ill-advised policy immediately preceding 
his accession. Everywhere the air was full of 
passionate discussion of two subjects — the prerog- 
ative of the king in the levy of taxes, and, even 
more important in the popular mind, the fear of 
a return of the religious dominion of Rome. 
Turbulent and radical times were those, when the 
king was reduced to the levy of so called benevo- 
lences from his subjects in order to raise money 
which the commons refused to vote — money for 
the royal private purse — money for the support of 



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royal wars to establish the royal succession in far 
off German Provinces — money for the royal favo- 
rite, His Grace the Duke of Buckingham. Those 
were the surprising days when the people, instead 
of the barons, took it upon themselves to go so far 
as to pass votes of censure upon the acts of the 
Crown, and to call into question its right to im- 
pose taxes without the consent of the House of 
Commons. 

Charles was hardly fitted to understand or deal 
with such an attitude, at least wanting " stronger 
battalions," or the wherewithal to create the same. 
Yet he might possibly have weathered the storm 
had he confined his high-handed policy to things 
political. Imbued, however, with his fatal con- 
ception of divine right, he tried to interfere with 
the consciences of his subjects, and in 1633 in- 
structed the Archbishop of Canterbury to reduce 
the English church throughout England to com- 
plete uniformity of ceremonial. The communion 
table was accordingly fenced with rails and re- 
ferred to as an altar, at which communicants were 
expected to kneel. And we may imagine the 
furor which was created among the Puritans, now 
very numerous and influential, by a royal order in 



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which the king directed that no hindrances should 
be thrown in the way of those who wished to 
dance or shoot at the butts on Sunday afternoon. 
Apparently the Continental Sunday was even then 
a political issue. 

Flat refusal to have any part in such a system 
caused the suspension and deprivation of many 
non-conformist clergy. A royal attempt to force 
a new Prayer book on the Scotch nation in 1638 
caused a civil war in which Charles had the worst 
of the argument and had to make concessions, and 
the final straw which drove the Puritans at home 
to revolt was the attempted seizure and imprison- 
ment of certain of the more radical members of 
the Commons for treason. There followed at 
once the momentous events of the civil war, the 
battles of Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby, 
the rise of Oliver Cromwell and the trial and exe- 
cution of Charles — events familiar to everyone. 

Viewed in the large, the reign of that unfor- 
tunate monarch was a period in which the politi- 
cal events, great and small, of many previous years, 
saw their logical culmination, and bore their ap- 
pointed fruit. It was emphatically a time of chang- 
ing ideas regarding things both religious and po- 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 



litical. The Puritanical conception, so long of 
minor significance, so long baited and ridiculed 
and held in contempt, in the language of one of 
its exponents, swept away many high cobwebs in 
the house of the state, and effectually put an end, 
for the time at least, to any possible religious com- 
promise with Rome. It was, too, a time of 
physical as well as mental unrest. A veritable ex- 
odus of refugees of various sorts was going on, 
peopling Holland and the American Colonies with 
some of the most energetic, conscientious and 
worthy citizens of Great Britain. Almost every 
town sent its quota, large or small, of its best citi- 
zens to carve out their fortunes upon other soil. 

II. 

In the midst of such an atmosphere, a young 
man named Pardon Tillinghast grew up in his 
home at Severn Cliffs, Beechy Head, in the 
County of Sussex, now known as Eastbourne, on the 
southeast coast of England. His surname is said to 
have been originally derived from the three words 
'' till-in-haste," which gives us an inkling as to the 
occupation of our forbears in Germany, or the hills 
of Scandinavia or Arya, or wherever else the name 



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originated. Little is known of his early history, 
but tradition says that he was a freeholder and 
started life as a shopkeeper. From his subsequent 
history it is safe to assume that of all the Round- 
heads in England, his was among the very round- 
est, and that from behind the counter of his shop 
he watched with keen interest all the earlier events 
I have so briefly described. Non-conformist, 
heart and soul, tradition has it that on the out- 
break of the civil war he joined the army of Crom- 
well, in which case he may have taken part in the 
battles of Edgehill and Marston Moor. 

At any rate, whether subject to persecution be- 
cause living in that part of England still loyal to 
the king, or despairing of any peaceful solution of 
the controversy in which the country was plunged, 
he finally, at the age of about twenty-three, left 
his home and friends to seek a new home in the 
wilderness of America, where he would be free to 
think what he liked, and say what he thought. 

III. 

Seven years before Pardon came to this decision, 
Roger Williams had been driven out of Massachu- 
setts on account of his so called '' dangerous doc- 



8 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

trine" that every man had a right to worship God 
according to the dictates of his own conscience, 
and had founded a plantation at the head of Nar- 
ragansett Bay which he named Providence ** in 
grateful remembrance of God's providence to me 
in my distress." Acquiring from the Indian 
Chiefs the land upon which the city is now built, 
it was his intention to make the colony a place 
where persons who were harrassed eleswhere for 
their religious beliefs could find a home and be 
free from persecution. A colony composed of 
such persons must have appealed to young Tilling- 
hast, who accordingly joined hands with them 
soon after landing in America in 1643, or there- 
abouts, and he continued here, with a brief inter- 
mission, for over seventy-five years, until his death. 
Shortly after coming here he, with other young 
men, signed a document accepting a free grant of 
twenty-five acres of land apiece, and agreed to be 
governed by the will of the majority, a circum- 
stance not lacking in elements of surprise, consid- 
ering the temper of these gentry. His name is 
the second one signed to the agreement, and the 
first mention in writing in this country of the 
name of Tillinghast. 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 



Soon afterwards, a portion of the land conveyed 
to Roger Williams by the Indian Chiefs was, by 
common consent, divided up into about fifty nar- 
row lots called ** Home Lots." They all bordered 
on the ** Towne Street," so called, which is now 
North and South Main Streets, and was at that 
time merely a shore road running from Fox Point 
along the east side of the Great Salt River, as the 
Providence river was then called, up into the 
country towards Pawtucket. From the Towne 
Street, they extended easterly up the hill to what 
is now Hope Street, each lot containing about 
five acres. The dividing lines between all these 
lots ran east and west, the lots being separated by 
stone walls, many of which may still be traced. 
The land which was allotted to Pardon Tilling- 
hast, or which he soon purchased from an early 
owner, was the fifth lot from the southern bound- 
ary of the original fifty lots and is near the corner 
of what is now South Main and Transit Streets. 

All of the Home Lot proprietors built their 
houses back from the Towne Street so as to give 
each house a strip of greensward around it. An 
orchard was generally built in the rear of the 
house on the west slope of the hill, and narrow 



10 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

lanes were laid out between the lots, allowing pass- 
age for the cattle going back on the hill to pas- 
ture. All the houses were a story or a story and 
a half in height, with a large chimney at one end. 
Generally the houses had but one room below and 
a chamber in the half story or attic, access to the 
chamber being obtained by ladder. At the rear 
of the houses, where Benefit Street now runs, each 
proprietor, independent to the last, laid out a sep- 
arate graveyard for the use of his family and his 
descendants. Upon his home lot, Pardon Tilling- 
hast built his house which, like those of his neigh- 
bors, was small and built of rough woodwork that 
was wrought chiefly with an axe, and following 
the example of his neighbors, he also located a 
graveyard in the rear of his lot. There he is now 
buried, together with about thirty of his descendants. 
When Benefit Street was proposed to be laid 
out for the benefit of those who had built their 
houses on the side slope of the hill some distance 
up from the Towne Street, there was violent op- 
position, since such a street would run through 
the graveyards of all the original owners of the 
Home Lots. The matter was compromised, how- 
ever, and the street as completed in 1756 wound 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 11 

and crooked about, so as to avoid, as far as possi- 
ble, disturbing the graves. In later years the in- 
mates of all of these graveyards, with the excep- 
tion of our own, were removed, the street was 
widened and straightened, and it is now one of 
the most dignified streets in Providence. Our 
own burial lot, as a result of the generosity of the 
descendants of our common ancestor, was recently 
improved, and a substantial monument erected in 
place of the original ones, the inscriptions on 
which had become almost entirely obliterated by 
the course of time. It now is an historical land- 
mark, not only to ourselves, but also to all those 
interested in the early history of the Town of 
Providence. 

Here, remarkable, in the words of a contem- 
porary, **for his plainness and piety," Pardon 
settled down, captain of his own soul, far from 
popish kneeling at altar rails, and, we may be sure, 
never again disturbed by his neighbors dancing or 
shooting at the butts of a Sunday afternoon. 

IV. 

The early records of the Town of Providence 
show that business rather than agriculture appealed 



12 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

to him during his life in Providence, since one of 
the lirst public records of the affairs of the early 
town sets forth the fact that he was allowed ten 
shillings for the use of his boat. 

In 1679 he was granted, on his petition, twenty- 
square feet for building him a store house, with 
privileges of a wharf over and against his dwelling 
house. This was the first wharf built in the 
Town of Providence, and was the beginning of 
the most extensive commercial transactions done 
at this time in the town. 

The public records show that with his business 
enterprises, his political and pastoral duties, he must 
have led a very active life. That he had the con- 
fidence of his fellow citizens in a marked degree 
is shown by the fact that he was a representative 
from Providence in the Colonial Assembly for 
six years, a member of the Town Council for 
nineteen years, and Town Treasurer of Providence 
for four years. As to his religious standing in the 
colony, of which he passed nearly seventy-five of 
the ninety-six years of his life, there can be no 
question. 

The First Baptist Church had been founded by 
Roger Williams immediately upon his coming here 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 13 

in 1636. According to its early records, the mem- 
bers at first met in a grove, unless the weather 
was wet and stormy, when they assembled in 
private houses. For over sixty years the church 
had no meeting house of its own, although there 
were no fewer than three thousand people scattered 
over Providence in the year 1700, mostly Baptists 
and Quakers. There was even no place in town 
for holding civil proceedings. At about this time, 
probably since 1688, the minister of the church 
was Pardon Tillinghast, he being the sixth suc- 
cessor to Roger Williams, who had separated from 
the church shortly after his connection with it ; 
and in the year 1700 the pastor showed his affec- 
tion for the church by building its first house of 
worship in America, upon a lot owned by him 
on the west side of North Main Street, nearly 
opposite Star Street. According to tradition it 
was a rude affair, in the shape of a hay cap, with 
a fire place in the middle, the smoke escaping from 
a hole in the roof. At first, the pastors of this 
church received but little for their services, and 
that little was received through voluntary contri- 
butions. Some of the elders even doubted their 
right to receive anything. Governor Jenckes, 



14 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

however, in a letter which is still in existence at 
the rooms of the Historical Society, wrote as fol- 
lows: — " Elder Tillinghast taught that it was the 
duty of the church to contribute towards the 
maintenance of the elders who labored in the word 
and doctrine of Christ; and although for his own 
part he would take nothing, yet it remained the 
church's duty to be performed to such as might 
succeed him." As Huckleberry Finn naively said 
of Uncle Silas — ** He never charged nothing for 
his preaching, and it was worth it, too!" 

Seven years before he died. Elder Pardon deeded 
this house, called the ** Baptist Meeting House," 
together with the lot on which it stood, to the 
church and their successors in the same faith, the 
consideration as stated in the deed being the 
" Christian love, good will and affection which I 
bear to the church of Christ in Providence, the 
which I am in fellowship with and have the care 
of as being the elder of the said church." In 
the same instrument he describes the faith of the 
church to be the same as that now held by the Six 
Principle Baptists, referring to Hebrews vi : i, 2, 
as an authority for so limiting its succession. He 
probably preached there until his death. 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 15 

In the words of a local historian, " he was as 
liberal a preacher as could be asked for, since he 
preached for nothing and threw a meeting house 
and lot into the church treasury." 

This rude place of worship was used until 1726, 
when a new meeting house was built on a lot south 
of that on which the old house stood. It appears 
from an old account book that the expense of pro- 
viding a dinner for the people who raised the 
meeting house was as follows : 

I fat sheep which weighed 172 lbs. 

1 lb. of butter 
y^ peck of peas 

2 loaves of bread, which weighed 1 5 lbs. 

Unless the loaves were of larger dimensions than 
usual, it would seem that the bread which mother 
used to make was not all which it has been cracked 
up to be. 

This house was occupied as a meeting house 
until 1775, at which time the house and lot were 
sold, and the proceeds invested in the present 
church, which is not excelled by any other in Prov- 
idence, either in design or manner of execution. 



16 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

The steeple was furnished with a bell and clock, 
both imported from England. The bell "weighed 
nearly three thousand pounds, and bore the fol- 
lowing motto : 

" For freedom of conscience the town was planted, 
Persuasion, not force, was used by the people. 
This church is the eldest, and has not recanted, 
Enjoying and granting, bell, temple and steeple." 

This bell was split in ringing, was recast and 
now bears the following inscription : 

"This church was founded A. D. 1639, the 
first in the state, and the oldest of the Baptists in 
America." 

Great dissatisfaction was expressed at the tone 
of this bell when it was first hung, and some in- 
dividuals broke a small piece from it with a sledge 
hammer. Either this improved the tone, or else 
taste has changed, for it is now regarded as one of 
the finest-toned bells in Providence. 

V. 

Pardon Tillinghast was twice married, and had 
three children by his first wife and nine by 
his second. His third son, Philip, succeeded to 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 17 

his father's business, that of a merchant, which he 
carried on and greatly extended, owning several 
ships at sea, two of which he lost in one year. 
He became wealthy, as wealth went in those days, 
and replaced the old log cabin by a residence which 
was said to have been, at the time of its erection, 
one of the finest in town and which was still 
standing on South Main Street up to a few years 
ago. A local historian who visited the house states 
that it was once truly aristocratically said that ** the 
buffet was filled with silver and the kitchen with 
slaves." It was two stories high with western base- 
ment and dormer windows, corniced doors, window 
frames, beaded clapboards and a monstrous chim- 
ney five feet square at the top. 

The great fire-place in the parlor was adorned 
with fifty-two blue Dutch tiles, each having a 
scriptural picture and its proper text. The first 
paper on the walls was imported from France, 
while the floor was painted in imitation of Mosaic 
work. Five generations of the Tillinghasts oc- 
cupied this ancestral home. 

Pardon Tillinghast had a good name. Roger 
Williams speaks of him as being a ** leading man 
among the people called Baptists at Providence." 



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Elder Pardon Tillinghast 



To know that Roger Williams was his warm 
friend and fellow laborer in the cause of humanity 
and religion is to know that he was a man of pos- 
itive convictions and of that rigid mould of char- 
acter which marked him as one of the leaders of 
his time. He died in 171 8, aged ninety-six years. 
Such, in brief, were the surroundings, the 
character and life of our common ancestor, the 
founder of the Tillinghast family in America. 




Tillinghast Genealogy. 



Pardon Tillinghast, ist, of Alfriston, county Sussex, 
England. 

Pardon Tillinghast, 2nd, of Alfriston, county Sussex, 
England, born at Stroat, county Sussex, England, Sept. i, 
1604, baptized Sept. 25 ; died in 1665 ; brother of John Til- 
linghast, the 5th Monarchy Man. 

Pardon Tillinghast, 3d (Elder Pardon), born at Severn 
Cliffs, county Sussex, near Beachy Head, England, in the 
year 1622. Came to Providence, R. I., in 1643 or 1645. 
Died Jan. 29, 1718. 

Married (i) Butterworth ; they had three children of 

the second generation : — 
I. Sarah. 
II. John. 
III. Mary. 

Married (2) Lydia, daughter of Philip Tabor, ist, of Tiver- 
ton and Dartmouth. They had nine children of the second 
generation : — 

I. Lydia, born Jan. 18, 1665 ; married John Audley. 
II. Pardon, Jr., born Feb. 16, 1666, died Oct. 15, 

1743- 

III. Philip, born Oct., 1668, died March 14, 1732; 

married Martha Holmes. 

IV. Joseph, born Dec. 16, 1669, died Dec. i, 1763; 

married Freelove Stafford. 



20 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

V. Benjamifi, born Feb. 2, 1672, died Sep. 14, 1726 ; 

married Sarah Rhodes. 
VI. Abigail, born March, 1674, died 1744; married 
Nicholas Sheldon. 
VII. Mercy, born 1678, died Nov. 13, 1769; married 

Nicholas Power. 
VIII. Hannah, married John Hale. 
IX. Elizabeth, died 1750; married Philip Tabor, her 
cousin. 



Second Generation. 

Pardon Tillinghast, Jr., born Feb. 16, 1666, died Oct. 
15, 1743- 

Married (i) Mary Keech. They had five children of the 
third generation : — 

I. Joseph. 

II. John. - 

III. Mary. 

IV. Mercy. 
V. Philip. 

Married (2) Sarah Tarbox. 



Third Generation. 
John Tillinghast, born 1690, died Oct. 21, 1777. 

Married (i) Ann -— -'- ^-'V 

(2) Phebe Greene ; 

(3) Ann Greene ; 
Iv^ ^ (4) Abigail Thomas. 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 21 



Nine children of the P^ourth Generation 




I. 


Amy. 




II. 


Maty. 




III. 


Pardon. ,_^ 


By 


second wife (Phebe Greene) : — 




I. 


John, Jr. 




II. 


Ann. 




III. 


We I than. 




IV. 


Lydia. 




^'v. 


Benjamin. 




VI. 


Charles. 



Fourth Generation. 
Charles Tillinghast, born April 5, 1729, died 1775. 

Married Abigail Allen. They had 8 children of the fifth 






.ration 




I. 


John. 


II. 


Pardon (Deacon) 


III. 


Jqs£iik *>yt. , 


IV. 


Phebe. 


V. 


Allen. 


VI. 


Charles. 


VII. 


Mercy. 


VIII. 


Amev. 



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In 1775 Charles Tillinghast was appointed recruiting or 
enlisting ofiicer by the General Assembly of Rhode Island 
(see R. I. Colonial Records, volume VII., page 359) and was 
very active in the work, so much so that the Tories informed 
him if he did not stop his active work in that direction they 
would kill him. 



22 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

At Quitnesset Neck, R. I. (North Kingstown), in Novem- 
ber of the year the Revolutionary war broke out (1775), he 
sent his son John on horseback to mill, and while on the way, 
the latter was seized by the Tories and made a prisoner, dying 
from rough treatment. In the same month four masked 
Tories entered his house at night. They held a pistol to his 
wife's head while she had a six-months'-old child in her arms. 
They took him out of bed, drove him naked to the beach, put 
him into a boat, and carried him prisoner to Block Island, 
where he died (from wounds ?) seventeen days afterward. 



Ft/t/i Generation. 

Pardon Tillinghast, born North Kingstown, R. I., June 
28, 1763, died West Greenwich, R. I., Nov. 20, 1816. 

Married Mary Sweet of Exeter, R. I. Born Oct. 2, 1770, 

died West Greenwich, R. I., Aug. 19, 1854. They had twelve 
children of the sixth generation : — 

I. Charles. 

II. Siisanjiah. 

III. Sylvester. 

IV. Mary. 
V. Allen. 

VI. Pardon, Jr. 

VII. Joseph. 

VIII. Abigail. 

IX. Tabitha. 

X. Phcbe. 

XI. Thomas Sivect. 

XII. John. 



Tillinghast Family Reunion, 

Providence, R. I., September 4, 1908. 
Names of those Present. 



The number before each name indicates which of the twelve 
famiHes they represented, viz. : (i) Charles; (2) Susannah ; 
(3) Sylvester ; (4) Mary ; (5) Allen ; (6) Pardon, Jr.; 
(7) Joseph; (8) Abigail ; (9) Tabitha ; (io)Phebe; (ii) 
Thomas; (12) John. 

A cross (x) before a name indicates not a descendant of 
Deacon Pardon. 

Members of the different famiHes connected by marriage 
are counted the same as those of Hneal descent. 



II Edward M. Tillinghast Arcadia, R. I. 

1 1 Waldo Tillinghast Plainfield, Conn. 

7 Edith M. Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

1 Eva H. (Tillinghast) Smith Washington, R. I. 

1 1 Mary C. Tillinghast Plainfield, Conn. 

X Charles B. Crainer Detroit, Mich. 

X Mrs. Howard Crainer LaCrosse, Wis. 

X Susannah C. Crainer LaCrosse, Wis. 

1 1 Annie Louise Tillinghast Plainfield, Conn. 

X F. M. Travis Torrington, Conn. 

2 Mrs. Susan A. Heath New London, Conn. 

2 Addie R. Heath New London, Conn. 

2 Mrs. Albert P. Martin Central Falls, R. L 

2 Mildred Martin Central Falls, R. 1. 

12 Rev. Whitman L. Wood Pawtucket, R. 1. 

12 Mrs. Laura A. (Straight) Wood Pawtucket, R. I- 



24 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

12 Mildred A. Wood Pawtucket, R. I. 

3 Lloyd Arnold Tillinghast Providence. R. I. 

3 Mrs. Laura ^L Tillinghast Providence, R. 1- 

II Hope Tillinghast Eddy East Providence, R. L 

1 1 Mrs. Mary Tillinghast Austin Brooklyn, N. Y. 

I Frank Bailey Smith, M. D Washington, R. L 

1 2 Mrs. Angelin Tillinghast Dana Pawtucket, R. L 

12 Newton Tillinghast Dana Pawtucket, R. L 

12 Frederick Wheaton Tillinghast Pawtucket, R. L 

I Charles Tillinghast Thayer Putnam, Conn. 

I Mrs. Charles Tillinghast Thayer Putnam, Conn. 

1 Katherine F. Thayer Putnam, Conn. 

? Mary J. Tillinghast Gould Providence, R. L 

X Lillian Milton Hammond Providence, R. L 

12 Mrs. Ellen F. Tillinghast Pawtucket, R. L 

7 Mrs. Nellie A. Buckley Hartford, Conn. 

7 Mrs. Janette C. Edwards Jewett City, Conn. 

7 Cora F. Buckley Hartford, Conn. 

6 Mrs. Mahala E. Gorton Pawtucket, R. L 

6 Mahala C. Gorton Pawtucket, R. L 

6 George Tillinghast Gorton Pawtucket, R. L 

X Edythe H. Waite Pawtucket, R. L 

X Phebe M. Waite Providence, R. L 

7 Mrs. Cora E. Hyde Moosup, Conn. 

7 Elizabeth A. Alfred Hartford, Conn. 

X Martha P. Orr Auburn, R. L 

6 Alice M. Ryder Pawtucket, R. L 

6 Mrs. James B. Payne Pawtucket, R. L 

6 Mrs. Richard H. Ryder Pawtucket, R. L 

7 Byron A. Colvin Thornton, R. I. 

7 Mrs. Byron A. Colvin Thornton, R. L 

3 Frank A. Tillinghast Edgewood, R. L 

8 John A. Bates West Greenwich Center, R. L 

8 Mrs. Emma J. Bates West Greenwich Center, R. L 

5 Clarence J. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

5 Mrs. Jennie M. Tillinghast Stainton Providence, R. L 

X Mrs. M. E. B. Andrews Providence, R. L 

5 Angeline V. Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

X Mrs. Charles H . Remington East Providence, R. I. 



Elder Pardon Tillinghast 25 

X Waldo Tillinghast Pawtucket, R. I. 

7 William C. Middleton North Attleboro, Mass. 

7 Mrs. William C. Middleton North Attleboro, Mass. 

7 Walter H. Middleton North Attleboro, Mass. 

7 Mrs. Azubah D. Bennett- North Attleboro, Mass. 

7 Mrs. Charles W. Harward Providence, R. I. 

7 Eva M. Harward Providence, R. I. 

4 John D. Tillinghast Parker West Greenwich, R. I. 

4 Mrs. Margaret Parker West Greenwich, R. I. 

4 Charles B. Parker West Greenwich, R. I. 

4 John Tillinghast Parker West Greenwich, R. I. 

12 Mrs. Marsena E. Tillinghast Gorton Providence, R. I. 

12 Mrs. Stella Gorton Woodward Providence, R. I. 

12 Avery Tillinghast Gorton Providence, R. I. 

12 Henry C. Gorton Providence, R. I. 

I Albertus F. Wood Danielson, Conn. 

I Mrs. Albertus F. Wood Danielson, Conn. 

I Earle F. Wood Danielson, Conn. 

7 Beatrice Tillinghast Lakewood, R. I. 

7 Mrs. Ida Tillinghast Horton Lakewood, R. I. 

4 Caleb B. Parker Providence, R. I. 

4 Mrs. Carrie D. Parker Providence, R. I. 

4 Carolyn D. Tillinghast Parker Providence, R. I. 

Mrs. A. A. Tillinghast Pawtuxet, R. I. 

Minnie L. Tillinghast Pawtuxet, R. I. 

12 Mrs. Susan Avery Tillinghast Nichols Washington, D. C. 

12 Albert Rodman Nichols Washington, D. C. 

X Frank A. Tillinghast, M. D Arctic, R. I. 

X Rev. E. A. Hanley, D. D., Pastor First Bapt. Church, Providence, R. I. 

3 Mrs. Daniel W. Tillinghast Auburn, R. I. 

3 Harold C. Tillinghast Auburn, R. I. 

3 Donald F. Tillinghast Auburn, R. I. 

3 Byron C. Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

3 Henry C. Tillinghast Chartley, Mass. 

3 Mrs. Annie E. Tillinghast Chartley, Mass. 

3 Irene N. Tillinghast Chartley, Mass. 

3 Mrs. Ida Tillinghast Hawkins Auburn, R. I. 

7 Mrs. Alice Tillinghast Shaw Lakewood, R. I, 

7 Albert Earl Shaw Lakewood, R. I. 



26 Elder Pardon Tillinghast 

7 Joseph Lewis Tillinghast Lakewood, R. I. 

7 Mrs. Josephine (Warner) Tillinghast Lakewood, R. L 

X Mrs. Walter E. Cherry Providence, R. L 

X Walter E. Cherry Providence, R. L 

4 Mrs. Mary J. Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

4 Mrs. William Elmer Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

4 Earl J. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

4 Alice M. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

II Mrs. Mary R. Tillinghast Hope Valley, R. L 

4 Mrs. Ella J. Stone Providence, R. L 

4 Herbert N. Durfee Providence, R. L 

4 Mrs. Susan E. Durfee Providence, R. I. 

I George M. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

I Mrs. George M. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

I Gladys S. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

I George Spooner Tillinghast Providence, R. L 

8 Pardon Tillinghast Brown West Greenwich Center, R. L 

8 Mrs. Pardon Tillinghast Brown West Greenwich Center, R. I. 

8 Cora Nellie Brown West Greenwich Center, R. I. 

8 Charles Stone Brown West Greenwich Center, R. L 

8 Mrs. Nellie (Bates) Brown West Greenwich Center, R. L 

X Nellie J. Jillson Lakewood, R. I. 

X Ella A. Weaver Providence, R. L 

II Mrs. Helen Eddy Rose Providence, R. L 

1 1 Fred Waldo Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

II Mrs. Jennie F. Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

1 1 Edward C. Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

1 1 Waldo Elbert Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

II Frank Howard Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

II Mrs. Annie D. Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

1 1 Louise Dodge Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

II Helen Waldo Tillinghast Central Village, Conn. 

6 Mrs. Ida M. Sweet Auburn, R. L 

6 Amy R. Tillinghast South Killingly, Conn. 

II Charles A. Tillinghast Danielson, Conn. 

1 1 Elbert Reynolds Tillinghast Upper Montclair, N. J. 

12 Russell N. Dana , Pawtucket, R. L 

John Avery Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 



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12 Mrs. Grace B. Tillinghast Providence, R. L 



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Charles S. Hazard East Providence, R. I. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Sheldon Tillinghast Arcadia, R. I. 

Elizabeth H. Tillinghast Arcadia, R. I. 

Frederick A. Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

Abel G. Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

Mrs. Sarah E. Tillinghast Providence, R. I • 

Charles A. Stone Providence, R. I. 

Eunice Abbie Tillinghast Danielson, Conn. 

Alexander Peck Bates, West Greenwich Center, R. I, 

Ralph G. Colvin Thornton, R. I. 

Ernest A. Chase Providence, R. I. 

Louella Tillinghast Straight Pawtucket, R. I. 

Mrs. Ella M. H. Straight ... Pawtucket, R. I. 

Charles Tillinghast Straight Pawtucket, R. I. 



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Charles 12 

Susannah 4 

Sylvester 14 

Mary 17 

Allen 3 

Pardon, Jr 8 

Joseph 20 

Abigail 8 

Tabitha (No living descendants). . . — 

Phebe " " «' . . . — 

Thomas 20 

John 19 



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Others present, 22 



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officers 

of the 

Tillinghast Family Association 

1908-1909. 



President : 
John Avery Tillinghast Providence, R. I. 

J^trst Vice-President : 
Caleb B. Parker Providence, R. I. 

Second Vice-President : 
Fred Waldo Tillinghast .... Central Village, Conn. 

Secretary and Treasurer : ' 

Charles Tillinghast Straight . P. O. Box 626, Pawtucket, R. I. 



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A T Me Journey 
To the Home of 

Elder Pardon Tillinghast 




1908 









